Taywood Nursery School

Overview

The report describes a nursery where children become "communicative, resilient, independent and imaginative youngsters" through a "mostly well-considered and delivered curriculum." Leaders have created a "happy school" where children feel "happy and at ease," forming close relationships with staff and peers while developing essential concepts and understanding equality.

Strengths

• Children achieve well and "enthuse about their learning," benefiting from "well-organised activities" including those in the woodland area.
• The school supports children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) effectively, ensuring they "progress well through the school’s curriculum."
• Staff take a "well-considered approach to developing children’s understanding of language," helping them become "skilful and successful communicators."
• The governing body has "strengthened its expertise" and now reviews the school’s work "more carefully and effectively."
• Children behave "kindly and sensibly," guided by clear routines and expectations set by staff.

Areas to improve

• In some areas of learning, the school has "not identified some of the key knowledge that staff will teach," making it harder for staff to deliver essential information.
• Sometimes, staff do not create activities that deliver the curriculum as intended, meaning "some children do not learn as well as they could."

Safeguarding

The report states that "the arrangements for safeguarding are effective."